In close dialogue with the Form Form SuperForm exhibition, presented on the third floor of the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Thomas Bayrle has created a new sculpture entitled Flamingo on Track 500. This road module, which visually crosses the Alpine chain in the background, appears as a potential extension of the circuit on the Lingotto roof. It is a road that intertwines another road and underlines the interconnectivity of the flows of people, goods and products that circulate in our present. The work recalls the conveyor belts of the assembly line of the former FIAT factory, a symbolic place of modernity that Bayrle had already looked to as a source of inspiration in the 1970s. For years this factory, an avant-garde example, has mass-produced cars, new contemporary icons that have become expressions of an unprecedented mass desire. Innervating the urban landscape, streets act as conveyor belts for goods and people and also become metaphors for the body and its blood vessels, neural connections and computational thinking. In an infinite loop, Flamingo rises like a rollercoaster of ambition, production and unstoppable progress, chronicling the way capitalism shapes cities.
Title: Flamingo
Author: Thomas Bayrle
Date: 2023
Technique: Mixed technique
Displayed in: Agnelli Art Gallery
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